{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsibilities-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1978/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsibilities-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1978/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1978/508",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-pensions-home-responsibilities-and-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1978, and shall come into operation on 6th April 1979.\n(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;\n“Personal Injuries Scheme”, “Service Pensions Instrument”, 1914–1918 War Injuries Scheme” and “Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Scheme” have the meaning assigned to them in regulation 2 of the Social Security (Overlapping Benefits) Regulations 1979; and\n“year” means tax year.\n(3) Any reference in these regulations to any provision made by or contained in any enactment or instrument shall, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that provision as amended or extended by any enactment or instrument and as including a reference to any provision which it re-enacts or replaces or which may re-enact or replace it with or without modification.\n(4) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation to this instrument and to the regulations revoked by it as if this instrument and the regulations revoked by it were Acts of Parliament and the revocations were repeals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 1(2) revoked (6.4.1994) by The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/704), regs. 1(1), 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (3.4.1981) by The Social Security Pensions (Home Responsibilities and Graduated Retirement Benefit) Amendment Regulations 1981 (S.I. 1981/330), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/508/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:36:58.472871+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}